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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A beverage cooler is a good solution for people who either want to save space in their refrigerator or need a way to keep cold drinks in a room other than the kitchen. But while these devices can be […]

AI slop, the colloquial term for low-effort AI-generated content, has emerged as a huge problem across different industries. Music labels are fighting streaming services to put an AI label on such tra/cks. Publishing houses are wary of AI-written drafts. Research journals are buried under a deluge of AI-generated papers. The software industry is reeling under […]

In this week’s Sunday Reboot, despite Apple making more money than in any previous Q3, it’s never enough to escape a beating from investors or analysts. Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week […]

An illustration of Africa2Moon’s Bounced African Low Lunar Spheres, or BALLS. Credit: Africa2Moon China’s Chang’e-8 Moon lander mission is scheduled for 2029, and just like other major launches, it has some room left over for additional payloads. The latest to be announced is a payload for the Africa2Moon program, consisting of three spherical sensors that […]

If you have built anything with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in the last two years, you have lived its central frustration: You chop your documents into chunks, embed them, retrieve the top few that look similar to the question, and hand them to the model. For “What was our Q3 refund policy?” This works beautifully. For […]

Certain chats with Anthropic’s Claude were briefly visible in Google Search over the weekend. According to a handful of Reddit posts, entering a specific Google query caused shared Claude conversations to appear in search results, allowing strangers to read exchanges that the affected users didn’t intend to make fully public. To be clear, these were […]

Chinese Zhipu AI GLM-5.2 succeeded where leading American models failed woefully Hugging Face breach reignited Washington’s battle over open-weight artificial intelligence Safety guardrails unexpectedly complicated defensive cybersecurity work during a real incident The recent cybersecurity incident involving Hugging Face has unexpectedly placed a Chinese open source AI model at the centre of an intensifying United […]

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game […]

I’ve been an avid PC gamer since the early 1990s. My first computer, bought specifically to play Star Wars: X-Wing, was a plucky 486DX running at 33MHz (cutting-edge at the time — well, only behind the 486DX2, but that was too pricey). I have fond memories of playing Doom on the office LAN and getting […]

ChatGPT has started refusing requests to imitate the writing styles of famous authors. Users who ask the chatbot to write “in the style of” a specific living or dead writer now frequently receive a refusal or a redirection toward a broader description of tone, genre, or mood instead, Ars Technica reports. In some cases, the […]